Heat-distributing device.



F. w. STEVENS. HEAT DISTRIBUTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION HLEDlUNE19 1916- 1 ,265,828. Patented May14,1918-.

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HEAT-DISTRIBUTING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1918.

Application filed June 19, 1916. Serial No. 104,455.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK W. STEVENS,

a citizen of the United States of America,

and resident of Albion, Marshall county, Iowa, have invented a new and useful Heat- Distributing Device, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for distributing heat from a hot-air furnace.

Another object of this invention is to provide improved means for diverting and directing currents of hot-air from a furnace.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation, showing my improved device. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

In the construction of the device as shown the numeral 10 designates a hot-air furnace casing adapted to be and preferably is located in a cellar or basement and formed with a neck 11 extending through a floor 12 and open at its upper end flush with the top of said floor. The opening in the floor 12, covered by a register 12, to which the neck 11 extends, preferably is located at and coincident with the bottom of a partition 13 between rooms 14, 15 of a building and an opening is formed in said partition above the opening in the floor and communicating therewith. The opening in the partition partakes of the characteristics as to size and form of a fire-place opening and is shown conventionally. The opening in the partition is lined on its sides with brick or tiles 16, thoroughly to protect the partition from fire and also to simulate the lining of a fireplace and hearths may be constructed and arranged on either side of the opening in the floor and project into the rooms 14, 15 flush with the floor thereof. The hearths may be surmounted by fenders 17 or dogs as desired, both to protect the floor opening and to further simulate a fireplace. Any desired form and style of mantel 18 and plinth 19 may be mounted on opposite faces of the partition 13 and project into the rooms 14, 15, thus further simulating a fireplace in each room and opening thereto. A templet 9r crown-piece 20 is mounted in the opening in the partition 13 and preferably is made of steel plate bent into the form of an equilateral triangle in crosssection and having its margins parallel and spaced apart to form a slot centrally of and above the opening in the floor. The base of the templet or crown-piece is uppermost and broad and flat and serves to support the mantels 18 extending across and lining the top of the opening in the partition 13, said templet being suitably supported in said opening. A damper 21, preferably made of a sheet of steel, is mounted in the opening of the partition 13 and projects through the slot between the margins of the templet, and extends downwardly from the templet to the register 12*.

The damper rests onthe register 12 as shown on the median line of the opening in the floor 12 and divides heated air rising through the neck 11 from the casing 10 of the furnace and directs said air against the depending converging walls of the templet, which walls act as deflectors and divert the heated air from the opening in the partition into the rooms 14, 15. Or, the damper 21 may be moved through an arc in either direction, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, and, in conjunction with one or the other of the depending walls of the templet, divert all of the heated air into one or the other of rooms 14, 15.

It is important that the converging de pending walls of the templet span or compass the width of the opening on the partition 13 so as to prevent the accumulationof heat, dust and cobwebs in the upper portion of said opening and divert all of the hot air into useful relation into a room or rooms.

I do not desire to be understood as limiting my claims to the exact construction or form shown and described, as the same may be modified in many particulars without departing from my invention.

I claim as my invention- 1. A heat-distributing device, comprising a floor formed with a hole, a furnace casing communicating with said hole, a partition formed with a hole above and communicating with the hole in the floor, a templet of triangular shape mounted in the upper portion of the latter hole and having deflecting walls overhanging the hole in the floor, a register overlying the hole in the floor, said templet being formed with a longitudinally extending slot over the hole in the floor, and

Gu des of may be cb'taiiiefl 01 five cents each, by

and piiniah on eithersicie or" theilbartition, a tempiei; of t 'ianguiai" shape mounted in theupper portion of the latter hole, and a damper projecting Within and extending ciownwg rdlyfrom said tempiet and adapted to be mbved across the register.

Eigned by me at Albion, Iowa this 13th day 02? May, 1916.

FiiANK W. STEVENS.

addressing the Gommissioner of Eatents, 

